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Tour: Hot Space | Leg 1: Europe
Date: 10th April 1982
Venue: Johanneshovs Isstadion
City: Stockholm, Sweden
Attendance: ca. 9,000

[Source 1: Main]
Audio Quality: B+
Lineage: AUD Cassette (x) WAV (Goldwave speed correction) FLAC level 8

[Source 2: Tracks 1, 7, 11, 21 and 23]
Audio Quality: B
Lineage: AUD Cassette (x) CDR (1) WAV (Goldwave speed correction) FLAC level 8

Merged and fixed up by logexpTommy

The picture was taken by Denis O'Regan.

This is the second show of the Hot Space Tour and the earliest circulating recording from it. Although Queen would return to Sweden's capital one more time in 1986, this is their final show at the Johanneshovs Isstadion, a venue they had visited already in 1977 and 1978 respectively. With no recording of the last night's concert in Gothenburg being available, this is the earliest recording with an additional musician: Morgan Fisher, former keyboardist of befriended rock group "Mott the Hoople" has joined the band as keyboardist but due to creative disagreements, their cooperation would end prematurely after the famous show at the National Bowl on June 5th. Tonight, Morgan is put into the spotlight during a oneoff joined guitar and keyboard solo but generally Morgan would often stay in the background on this tour.

The setlist has been changed for the new tour as well. The idea of a medley has been scrapped entirely although "Get Down, Make Love" has stayed, being played on its own for the first couple of shows before being cut down and transitioning into Brian's guitar solo each night. After having been played on the previous tour already, "Flash's Theme" and "The Hero" make for a grande start to the show. "Liar" has been revived for the first time in three years due to a survey within the official Queen fan club. Unfortunately, it would be dropped after only one month and never be heard again in its full glory. Interestingly enough, only three "new" songs are performed tonight, with "Under Pressure" already having been released and performed back in 1981. More songs would be added along the tour.

Snippets at this show: 'We Will Rock You' (before 'Fat Bottomed Girls') and 'Not Fade Away' by The Crickets (before 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love')

00:00:00 01. Flash's Theme [tape]
00:02:10 02. The Hero
00:03:48 03. Tie Your Mother Down
00:07:57 04. Action This Day
00:12:52 05. Play the Game
00:17:31 06. Somebody to Love
00:25:40 07. Staying Power
00:29:59 08. Get Down, Make Love
00:36:28 09. We Will Rock You (improv)
00:37:45 10. Fat Bottomed Girls
00:43:41 11. Love of My Life
00:48:23 12. Save Me
00:53:08 13. Keyboard & Guitar Solo
00:56:51 14. Liar
01:06:48 15. Not Fade Away
01:07:55 16. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
01:12:31 17. Bohemian Rhapsody
01:17:59 18. Under Pressure
01:21:32 19. Now I'm Here [cut]
01:28:42 20. Dragon Attack
01:32:27 21. Now I'm Here (reprise)
E N C O R E
01:37:36 22. Another One Bites the Dust
01:41:26 23. Sheer Heart Attack
E N C O R E
01:46:39 24. We Will Rock You
01:48:58 25. We Are the Champions
01:52:26 26. God Save the Queen [tape]

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